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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Received extortion letter requesting $570 for erroneously posted private image

« on: March 11, 2017, 09:09:55 AM »

Good one Rock!  Thank you!

One thing i'm starting to get from perusing this site is that I shouldn't get so worried about all of this.  This company sounds like a bunch of bully punk conniving debt collectors.  So for now, I'm may have to add a few more numbers to my phones block list.  Whatever.

Thanks all.  I'm going to keep studying what is posted here and build some confidence. 

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: Received extortion letter requesting $570 for erroneously posted private image

« on: March 10, 2017, 09:04:52 PM »

Hello Greg.  Thank you very much for your reply.  I've already started looking over the site and am already feeling overwhelmed.    I'm not sure I have the constitution for this stuff but, here goes...

The first letter from a month ago (received it twice on the same day), and the second letter from today (also received it twice), from:  Sam Brown   [email protected]

From:
605 5th Ave S, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98104 USA
Tel 1 800 972 4170 Fax 206 925 5001 www.gettyimages.com

Is that the information you meant?

Thank you again!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Received extortion letter requesting $570 for erroneously posted private image

« on: March 10, 2017, 08:09:39 PM »

I've now received three emails (NOT hard copies!) of the letter I assume everyone here is referring to.

It is requesting I pay $570 for (mistakenly) posting one of their small images several years ago.  It was live on my site for probably less than a year before I made it private as the service offering wasn't selling.

Anyways, I knew nothing about copyright stuff and my web designer may have been the one to post the image.  I just don't know.  They say I have 30 days to respond. (Then what??)

Are there good thread here that you could recommend I read?  I admit I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of info here and not sure which Subject lines to click on.

Thanks for your help!